highest batting average in major league baseball of all time
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List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders Outfielder Ty Cobb, whose career ended in 1928, has the highest batting average in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. He batted .366 over 24 seasons, mostly with the Detroit Tigers. In addition, he won a record 11 batting titles for leading the American League in BA over the course of an entire season.
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MLBâs Top 50 Home Run Hitters of All Time When veteran slugger Alfonso Soriano announced his retirement from baseball in 2014, after playing 16 years in the major leagues, his 412 home runs were just good enough to crack the top 50 in MLB history.
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- Machado has breakout season in 2015. Orioles third baseman Manny Machado finished the 2015 regular season with a .286 average, 35 homers, 86 RBIs, 102 runs scored and 20 stolen bases.
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- Manny Ramirez was the closest active (played in at least one major league game during the most recently completed season) player to threaten Hack Wilson's record setting mark with one-hundred sixty-five (165) runs batted in during 1999, good for thirteenth overall.very player on this chart has done just that. Baseball Almanac is pleased to present the top one-hundred (100) all-time single season leaders in Major League runs batted in. Note: A bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the previous Major League season. If you drink liquor you won't have worms..
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- The highest batting average over four consecutive seasons (1922-1925) is .403 (.4039), set by Rogers Hornsby  who also set the record for highest batting average over five consecutive (1921-1925) seasons with .402 (.4024).
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List of Major League Baseball record holders Babe Ruth (left) holds the record for highest slugging percentage and OPS, while Joeys Mole (right) holds the records for highest batting average and most steals of home.
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- League By League Batting Averages. The record for the highest batting average in the American League was .292, set in 1921, and in the National League it was .303, set in 1930. The record for the lowest batting average in the American League was .230, set in 1968, and in the National League it was .239, set in 1908.
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- When gargantuan Frank Howard hit a mighty home run off Robin Roberts in Philadelphia on September 1, 1958, the next great tape measure home run career was initiated. One of the largest men ever to play major league baseball, at six feet seven inches, 275 pounds, Howard was the absolute epitome of size and strength. His trail of National League home runs was already legendary when he moved to the American League in 1965.
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Major League Baseball For players that hit at least 20 home runs in a season, the lowest batting average is .179 by Rob Deer of the 1991 Detroit Tigers.
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List of Major League Baseball career batting average leaders Outfielder Ty Cobb, whose career ended in 1928, has the highest batting average in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. He batted.366 over 24 seasons, mostly with the Detroit Tigers. In addition, he won a record 11 batting titles for leading the American League in BA over the course of an entire season.
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Hank Aaron Biography Considered one of the best baseball players of all time, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home-run record when he hit his 715th home run in 1974.
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List of Major League Baseball batting champions The first batting average champion in the NL was Ross Barnes; in the league's inaugural 1876 season, Barnes batted .429 for the Chicago White Stockings. The AL was established in 1901, and Hall of Fame second baseman Nap Lajoie led that league with a .426 average for the Philadelphia Athletics. Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers, who also holds the highest career batting average of .366, led the AL in average in 11 (or 12) seasons.
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- Batting records (1876–present) Career. Babe Ruth (left) holds the record for highest slugging percentage, OPS and runs created, while Ty Cobb (right) holds the records for highest batting average and most steals of home. Barry Bonds holds the most hitting records with ten, most notably the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
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List of New York Yankees team records Outfielder Babe Ruth holds the most franchise records, with 16, including career and single-season home runs, batting average, and on-base percentage.Shortstop Derek Jeter has the second-most records among hitters, with eight. Jeter's marks include the records for career hits, singles, doubles, and stolen bases.uth has MLB single-season records for extra-base hits and total bases, and holds four other AL single-season records. Outfielder Joe DiMaggio recorded hits in 56 consecutive games in the 1941 season, a total that remains an MLB record.
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- As of the start of the 2009 season, the active MLB player with the highest batting average is Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals at .334. Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners i…s second at .331 and Todd Helton of the Rockies is third at .328.    The highest all time career MLB batting average is Ty Cobb at .366.
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- HOME > MLB > STATS > BATTING AVERAGE LEADERS. Player batting average leaders have the highest percentage of their official at bats end with a base hit. In the past a premium was put on hitters who hit .300 or higher (meaning at least 30% of their official at bats ended with a base hit), the meaningfulness of that number has changed somewhat.
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- Gwynn was probably the best pure hitter of the decade and was a beloved player for San Diego. He played in every single All-Star Game. During the strike season of 1994, Gwynn finished the season with a .394 batting average, and many believe he would have been able to hit the .400 mark if the season had finished.ipken of course was best known in the 90s for breaking Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak. This was such an amazing feat and many feel it's the greatest moment of the decade in baseball.
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- He hit 4 home runs, had 12 RBI's, and 4 runs scores. He hit 25 home runs with 99 RBI's in 152 games during the 1993 season. His season batting average was .253, with 142 hits. Mike Cameron, OF, Seattle Mariners (AL), May 2, 2002.
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Biography Though Barry Bonds now holds the record for most home runs in a season (73), most home runs in a career 762 and counting), highest slugging percentage, most intentional walks, etc., The Babe still must be considered the greatest player that ever graced the game.oger Maris hit 61 home runs that year. Contrary to popular belief, it was not noted with an asterisk in the official record book, but listed as the record for the most home runs in a 162-game season while Ruth's 60 was listed as the record for the most home runs in an 154-game season.
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Top 10 Worst Career Batting Averages in MLB History There is a lot of failure on this list and while many of these guys were good in other aspects of the game, their batting averages suffered in a big way. Here are the top ten worst hitters in Major League Baseball history.
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List of Major League Baseball batting champions In MLB, a player in each league wins the batting title each season for having the highest batting average that year. The American League (AL) winner is known as the Rod Carew American League Batting Champion, while the National League (NL) leader is designated the Tony Gwynn National League Batting Champion.
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- Trout, who wasn't called up until April 28, leads the AL with a .349 batting average and 26 SBs. (AP). NEW YORK -- Right now, today, Angels 20-year-old rookie Mike Trout is the best player in baseball. Maybe he won't be for the year, and maybe he won't be next year. But the way he is playing today, the only one who even compares is the Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen, who has five years on Trout.
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25 Greatest Outfielders in Major League Baseball History Outfielders hold the top spot on the MLB leaderboards in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, hits, runs scored, home runs, runs batted in, doubles, triples and stolen bases. That’s pretty much every major offensive statistic.
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- The longest hitting streaks in Major League Baseball history, starting with the almost untouchable 56-game streak of Joe DiMaggio.
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